Overview
In February 2021, Research Scientist Heidi Meudt explored numerous sites on Mount Patriarch and Mount Brilliant in Kahurangi National Park as part of a Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research field trip with botanists Ilse Breitwieser, Rainer Vogt and Kerry Ford.
One population each of three native Myosotis species were located. A herbarium specimen and leaf samples for DNA research were collected for each species to help address key research questions as part of Te Papa's Myosotis research program.
Other indigenous and naturalised species were also collected as part of general Te Papa collection development to improve our knowledge of what grows where in New Zealand.
Most of the collection records and photos of plants we collected on this trip can be seen here (scroll down to "Related Objects" below).